46^ GYJ7ANDRIA. 



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for it belongs to Dioecia Monadelpliia* 

 Tlie Order however must be retained for 

 the sake of Stylidiuin^ a New Holland 

 genus, related, as above mentioned, to 

 Forstera. This is my Ventenatia, Uxot. 

 Dot. t. 66, 67 ; but another genus having 

 previously, without my knowledge, re- 

 ceived the latter denomination, that of 

 Stylidium^ under which I had, some time 

 ago, communicated this genus to the French 

 botanists*, and which they have adopted, 

 becomes established. See La Biilardiere's 

 excellent work on New Holland plants, 

 where several species of it are figured. 



5. Ventandria. The original genera of this 

 Order, Aycn'ta, Glut a, and PassiJIoray 

 Escot. Bot. t»28, most unquestionably have 

 nothing to do with it, their stamens being 

 inserted below the germen, merely on a 



* I was not aware of Lonreiro's Stylid'mmy a plant, 

 accordiiig to his description, of the 7th Class j FL 

 Coch'mch. v. 1. 221 ; but this can scarcely interfere with 

 ours, being probably, as it grows about Canton, some 

 well-known shrub ihat happened to have a 7-cleft flower. 

 It should seem to belong to the Rulnacece, notv/ithbtand- 

 ing some points iu the description. 



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